Life, Leadership and Business

Monday, 10 October 2016

Change is loaded with uncertainty and can get messy if not
handled correctly. Cautious behaviours, high strung emotions and wobbly
expectations create an unstable pot for progress. Double-minded leaders guiding
doubtful team members causes blindness to the various traps that will drag you
back to the level you wanted to leave. Four traps in specific are common to
change agents and will prevent your path to progress. These four traps are:

Sunday, 9 October 2016

Leadership is a demanding role, and even more so when it
comes to guiding change. As a leader you automatically step in to the role: Custodian
of Change. A leader has the unenviable job of juggling two main elements – Activities
for Change and Engagement of Team Members. This is no easy thing as these tasks
are on opposite ends of the skills range. A Leader requires a set of unique
skills, abilities and traits, and even more so when it comes to managing
change.

Listed here are traits that are extremely useful when
dealing with Change within the team or organisation:

Change is inevitable, but progress isn’t guaranteed!
Industry, technology and information changes continuously, but this is no guarantee
that your team will progress as a result of the change. Successful change needs
to be deliberate and managed in order for the team to gain the full benefits.
All change will require the leader to observe, guide and manage team knowledge and
behaviour. Managing change is the reason leaders exist!

“If it’s
worth doing, it’s worth doing badly at first.” Many teams use this quote as a
mantra, launching their efforts in a bid to get momentum for their cause. It is
true that it is easier to steer a car while it is moving. A stationary vehicle
is both impossible to turn and difficult to get rolling. There are a lot of
advantages for the team or organisation to get the ball rolling as soon as
possible, as changing direction later is common, possible and if managed
correctly – powerful.

Thursday, 6 October 2016

As every successful athlete knows, as every great salesman
has experienced – there is a fine line between failure and success. The
difference between a failure and a successful task balances uneasily on the
golden pivot of timing! As in sports or in sales – when to lead is as important
as how or where.

It will come as no surprise to someone climbing the
Leadership Ladder that leaders have to sacrifice in order to succeed! The glamorous
image people have of leadership hides the fact that leaders are called to give
up more than anyone else in order to stay up the ladder as a leader. The higher
you climb as a leader, the greater the sacrifice you will be called to make. Leadership is marked by true living sacrifices.

New and budding leaders often falter when they discover the
types of sacrifices they need to make and their growth path changes from one of
leadership to one of dictatorship. Here is a brief list of sacrifices a leader
will be called to make on their path to success:

It is safe to say
that being busy does not mean you are productive. It must also be said that
leaders never reach a point where they do not have to prioritise their
activities. A diary full of activity doesn’t guarantee accomplishments. In
fact, the higher you climb up the successful leader ladder, the more important
successful prioritising becomes.

Pareto’s 80/20 Principle suggests that 20% of your effort
will produce 80% of your rewards. There isa big “BUT” attached to that principle – but you must select worthwhile
activities that will bring reward.

So, how do you, as a leader, select the “better” activities
to get more bangs for your sweat? By utilising the 3 R’s of Priority of course.
The 3 R’s of Priority are three questions the leader can ask to determine if an
activity is really worth the effort:

Like a strong man in a Truck Pulling Contest – Leadership is
hard to get started! The strong man leans into the braces with his full weight,
taking small, but strong steps to just get the truck rolling. Once it starts to
move, keeping the truck rolling is a lot simpler. It the same way, starting
your team off will take all the strength you have, but will get easier as you
roll along.

Relentless dedication to winning separates the successful
leader from the crowd. Whether success is correcting a social wrong like
Ghandi, or cornering a segment of the I.T. Market to earn millions like Bill
Gates, you commitment must be energetic, unforgiving and never-ending until victory
is in the bag!

Great leaders all have this in common: They are unwilling to
accept anything less than pure VICTORY! The alternative to winning is totally unacceptable
and foreign to them, driving them to find the path to success

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